13.10.18 | Entry: 12 PM

Program

Students’ day, referred to as UNIDAY, is one of the events that gather the young members of our community studying in different parts of the world. Starting in 2007 with “The Future in the Tradition” and celebrating the third program “Our dreams go back to the past” in 2011, UNIDAY is organized in 2014 with the subject of “When the thought sets off on the journey.” On October 13, 2018, we will meet for the fifth UNIDAY with the slogan “From knowledge to awareness”. Convinced that a healthy relationship with the past will enable a better understanding of the present and facilitate establishing a healthier future, the programme brings students together with some exemplary personalities who can serve them as role models. Colourful program of the day covers presentations of participants, masters of instrumental music of the East and the West, exhibitions of different branches of art and introduction of outstanding books.

13.10.2018 | GİRİŞ SAATİ: 12:00

Students’ day, referred to as UNIDAY, is one of the events that gather the young members of our community studying in different parts of the world. Starting in 2007 with “The Future in the Tradition” and celebrating the third program “Our dreams go back to the past” in 2011, UNIDAY is organized in 2014 with the subject of “When the thought sets off on the journey.” On October 13, 2018, we will meet for the fifth UNIDAY with the slogan “From knowledge to awareness”. Convinced that a healthy relationship with the past will enable a better understanding of the present and facilitate establishing a healthier future, the programme brings students together with some exemplary personalities who can serve them as role models. Colourful program of the day covers presentations of participants, masters of instrumental music of the East and the West, exhibitions of different branches of art and introduction of outstanding books.

Knowledge is one of the basic structures in our minds..

Knowledge is one of the basic structures in our minds. That knowledge which the great thinker Taşköprülüzade Ahmed Efendi calls “the piety of thought” is since the past, the most basic concept. Those who produce it and master it can determine their direction. Knowledge that does not enter awareness does not cause action but only apparent habits and custom. In order to be able to make the transformation from knowledge to awareness,it requires a skillfulness and spiritualization of that knowledge. However, conscious knowledge is creating awareness, and from the internalized awareness it comes to virtue and morality.

Today we are in front of great challenges and testify technological developments that uproot the most dignified creature of its nature, such as possibilities of genetic manipulation, which could result in existential transformations of human existence and its lifeworld and discourses on artificial intelligence and future effects are not hardly calculable. Against this challenge we need great ideas and a collective awareness to accompany the knowledge of this age. The history has also shown that great thoughts arise mainly in environments where great challenges and major crises exist.

Those who have something to say in the face of challenges under the vault of heaven; to regain the ability to say “O Mankind!” to the Islamic world in a constructive manner that includes all of humanity with a consciousness of one’s identity, time and place and with an ownership of the rich wisdom of tradition and history, is our biggest concern. It is the concern to transform the essence and knowledge we own to principled consciousness, to construct a new understanding of the massive change brought by globalisation in order to build the foundation which will bring the birth of a collective intellect.

It is our sincerest wish to build the path for a generation which shares this concern.

In the words of the late Aliya Izzetbegović: “Lazy people live with their dreams. Hardworking people do not only verify their dreams, they take steps to implement and realise them.”

We are looking forward to welcoming you to IGMG Students’ 5th UNIDAY, a place where those who are on their journey to implement their dreams meet their fellow travellers.

Selçuk Çiçek

Chariman of the Students Department

Knowledge is one of the basic structures in our minds. That knowledge which the great thinker Taşköprülüzade Ahmed Efendi calls “the piety of thought” is since the past, the most basic concept. Those who produce it and master it can determine their direction. Knowledge that does not enter awareness does not cause action but only apparent habits and custom. In order to be able to make the transformation from knowledge to awareness,it requires a skillfulness and spiritualization of that knowledge. However, conscious knowledge is creating awareness, and from the internalized awareness it comes to virtue and morality.

Today we are in front of great challenges and testify technological developments that uproot the most dignified creature of its nature, such as possibilities of genetic manipulation, which could result in existential transformations of human existence and its lifeworld and discourses on artificial intelligence and future effects are not hardly calculable. Against this challenge we need great ideas and a collective awareness to accompany the knowledge of this age. The history has also shown that great thoughts arise mainly in environments where great challenges and major crises exist.

Those who have something to say in the face of challenges under the vault of heaven; to regain the ability to say “O Mankind!” to the Islamic world in a constructive manner that includes all of humanity with a consciousness of one’s identity, time and place and with an ownership of the rich wisdom of tradition and history, is our biggest concern. It is the concern to transform the essence and knowledge we own to principled consciousness, to construct a new understanding of the massive change brought by globalisation in order to build the foundation which will bring the birth of a collective intellect.

It is our sincerest wish to build the path for a generation which shares this concern.

In the words of the late Aliya Izzetbegović: “Lazy people live with their dreams. Hardworking people do not only verify their dreams, they take steps to implement and realise them.”

We are looking forward to welcoming you to IGMG Students’ 5th UNIDAY, a place where those who are on their journey to implement their dreams meet their fellow travellers.

Selçuk Çiçek

Chariman of the Students Department

Guests

Prof. Dr. Moncef Marzouki

Prof. Dr. Moncef Marzouki, former President of Tunisia and human rights defender, was born on 7th July in 1945. After studying medicine at the University of Strasbourg he went back to Tunisia on 1979. Before he joined to the Tunisian Association of Human Rights, he founded the Susa (Association) Medical Health Centre and the Network against Child Abuse. In his youth Marzouki went to India in order to follow the development of the peaceful resistance of Mahatma Gandhi. Then he went South Africa with the intention to analyse the Apartheid System. Because of several accusations like distributing false news he was sentenced to jail. Afterwards he founded the National Freedom Committee. He also achieved to be a member of the Arab Human Rights Commission, which member he still is. In 2001 he founded the Congress Party for the Republic and although his party was prohibited one year later, he continued his activities in France. On the Elections of the 23th October of 2011 his party was one of the coalition partners of government “Troika”. So on the 12th December 2011 Marzouki was elected as the President of Tunisia, which he did continue to do until December 2014.

Prof. Dr. Moncef Marzouki

Prof. Dr. Moncef Marzouki, former President of Tunisia and human rights defender, was born on 7th July in 1945. After studying medicine at the University of Strasbourg he went back to Tunisia on 1979. Before he joined to the Tunisian Association of Human Rights, he founded the Susa (Association) Medical Health Centre and the Network against Child Abuse. In his youth Marzouki went to India in order to follow the development of the peaceful resistance of Mahatma Gandhi. Then he went South Africa with the intention to analyse the Apartheid System. Because of several accusations like distributing false news he was sentenced to jail. Afterwards he founded the National Freedom Committee. He also achieved to be a member of the Arab Human Rights Commission, which member he still is. In 2001 he founded the Congress Party for the Republic and although his party was prohibited one year later, he continued his activities in France. On the Elections of the 23th October of 2011 his party was one of the coalition partners of government “Troika”. So on the 12th December 2011 Marzouki was elected as the President of Tunisia, which he did continue to do until December 2014.

Dr. İbrahim Halil Üçer

İbrahim Halil Üçer obtained his undergraduate degree in 2004 at the Faculty of Theology of Marmara University. In 2007, he defended his thesis titled “Abu Hayyan at-Tawhidi and His Philosophical Identity” at the Islamic Philosophy branch of the Institute of Social Sciences of the same university. In 2010-2011 he attended the Institute of Islamic Sciences of McGill University in Canada as a visiting researcher. In 2014, he obtained his doctorate in Islamic philosophy with his thesis titled “The Understanding of the Form in Ibn Sina’s Philosophy”. Currently an Associate Professor at the Philosophy department of Istanbul Medeniyet University, Üçer has several publications amongst which “The Form in Ibn Sina’s Philosophy”, “Ore and Existence” and “The Atlas of Islamic Thought.” His interests and works lie in the translation of Tashkopruluzade’s works, definitions of the human being in Islamic thought, Ibn Sina’s epistemology and the history of Islamic thought.

Dr. İbrahim Halil Üçer​

İbrahim Halil Üçer obtained his undergraduate degree in 2004 at the Faculty of Theology of Marmara University. In 2007, he defended his thesis titled “Abu Hayyan at-Tawhidi and His Philosophical Identity” at the Islamic Philosophy branch of the Institute of Social Sciences of the same university. In 2010-2011 he attended the Institute of Islamic Sciences of McGill University in Canada as a visiting researcher. In 2014, he obtained his doctorate in Islamic philosophy with his thesis titled “The Understanding of the Form in Ibn Sina’s Philosophy”. Currently an Associate Professor at the Philosophy department of Istanbul Medeniyet University, Üçer has several publications amongst which “The Form in Ibn Sina’s Philosophy”, “Ore and Existence” and “The Atlas of Islamic Thought.” His interests and works lie in the translation of Tashkopruluzade’s works, definitions of the human being in Islamic thought, Ibn Sina’s epistemology and the history of Islamic thought.

Dr. Abdurrahman Reidegeld

Ahmad Abdurrahman Reidegeld is born in 1966 and studied Islamic Studies in Cologne. Later he lived in Oman and do fieldworks. One of his important works, which is published is a comprehensive manual (“Ilmihal”) on the four islamic law schools in German language. Six year study of African Studies, Malayology and Islamic Studies in Cologne with M.A. Reidegeld obtained his doctorate from the University of Cologne. He leads courses at the Islamic Institute and is an Islamic teacher in Vienna. Further more he ist working on education in the ministry of foundation in the area of „Ifta“, the practical fatwa-speaking as well as on the administration of the foundation department. Dr. Reidegeld leads courses at the Islamic Institute and has been teaching at the IRPA in Vienna since 2001. He is a akademic islamic speacker for ‘Ulumul-quran,’ Ulumul-hadith, Sira, Islamic History, Ath-thaqafa and Introduction to Shari’a. In the European-German-Context Mr. Reidegeld ist the one of important islamic teacher, researcher and activist in german languange.

Dr. Abdurrahman Reidegeld​

Ahmad Abdurrahman Reidegeld is born in 1966 and studied Islamic Studies in Cologne. Later he lived in Oman and do fieldworks. One of his important works, which is published is a comprehensive manual (“Ilmihal”) on the four islamic law schools in German language. Six year study of African Studies, Malayology and Islamic Studies in Cologne with M.A. Reidegeld obtained his doctorate from the University of Cologne. He leads courses at the Islamic Institute and is an Islamic teacher in Vienna. Further more he ist working on education in the ministry of foundation in the area of „Ifta“, the practical fatwa-speaking as well as on the administration of the foundation department. Dr. Reidegeld leads courses at the Islamic Institute and has been teaching at the IRPA in Vienna since 2001. He is a akademic islamic speacker for ‘Ulumul-quran,’ Ulumul-hadith, Sira, Islamic History, Ath-thaqafa and Introduction to Shari’a. In the European-German-Context Mr. Reidegeld ist the one of important islamic teacher, researcher and activist in german languange.

UNITALK

The UNITALK’s motto will be “From students to students”. It will discuss topics that affect the future of ourselfes.

UNITALK

The UNITALK’s motto will be “From students to students”. It will discuss topics that affect the future of ourselfes.

Music

Le Trio Joubran

The brothers Samir (1973), Wissam (1983) and Adnan (1985) Joubran from Nazareth grew up in a family that has been studying the Oud instrument for four generations. Samir was the one, how started with a professional musical career. The first appearance as “Le Trio Joubran” was in 2004. In the year 2005 her deput album “Dandana” appwared as a assembly of the words “Ranna” and “Dandana”. The band released their second album “Majaz” in 2007. This album was released achieved fame as soundtrack of the French movie “Adieu Gary”, by Nassim Amaouche. In 2006, they received the Best Music Award for “Majaz” at the Sixth International Film Festival in Dubai. They gettinng by numerous awards for film music and composition, as well as “The Order of Merit and Excellence” for their career from the Palestinian National Authority in 2013.

Le Trio Joubran

The brothers Samir (1973), Wissam (1983) and Adnan (1985) Joubran from Nazareth grew up in a family that has been studying the Oud instrument for four generations. Samir was the one, how started with a professional musical career. The first appearance as “Le Trio Joubran” was in 2004. In the year 2005 her deput album “Dandana” appwared as a assembly of the words “Ranna” and “Dandana”. The band released their second album “Majaz” in 2007. This album was released achieved fame as soundtrack of the French movie “Adieu Gary”, by Nassim Amaouche. In 2006, they received the Best Music Award for “Majaz” at the Sixth International Film Festival in Dubai. They gettinng by numerous awards for film music and composition, as well as “The Order of Merit and Excellence” for their career from the Palestinian National Authority in 2013.

Calligraphy Art Exhibitions

Calligraphy artist and teacher: Mustafa Cemil Efe

He was born in Ankara in 1979, he begins in 2005 with handwriting courses of Rika Arts. At the same time, he began to study the traditional Turkish arts at Selçuk University in Konya. 2009 he completed his studies as one of the best graduates of the faculty. In the same year he received the permission of Prof. Dr. med. Fevzi Günuc, who was a pupil of the famous Calligrapher and artist Hamid Aytaç. He moved to Istanbul and started his second studies at Mimar Sinan University in 2010 at the faculty of traditional Turkish arts.

His art exhibitions have been taken place in Turkey, Japan, Nigeria, the Vatican, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Serbia, and the United States. For the first time, there will be a exhibition in Germany.

He is also a professional graphic artist and photographer. Mustafa Cemil Efe is also a author for art journals. His artistic skills are currently unique in the world. He is the only calligrapher whose works are also in the collection of the White House of the United States of America.

His art workshop is located in Üsküdar (Istanbul), where he continues to educate students and promote his work as an artist.

Calligraphy artist and teacher: Mustafa Cemil Efe

He was born in Ankara in 1979, he begins in 2005 with handwriting courses of Rika Arts. At the same time, he began to study the traditional Turkish arts at Selçuk University in Konya. 2009 he completed his studies as one of the best graduates of the faculty. In the same year he received the permission of Prof. Dr. med. Fevzi Günuc, who was a pupil of the famous Calligrapher and artist Hamid Aytaç. He moved to Istanbul and started his second studies at Mimar Sinan University in 2010 at the faculty of traditional Turkish arts.

His art exhibitions have been taken place in Turkey, Japan, Nigeria, the Vatican, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Serbia, and the United States. For the first time, there will be a exhibition in Germany.

He is also a professional graphic artist and photographer. Mustafa Cemil Efe is also a author for art journals. His artistic skills are currently unique in the world. He is the only calligrapher whose works are also in the collection of the White House of the United States of America.

His art workshop is located in Üsküdar (Istanbul), where he continues to educate students and promote his work as an artist.

Commemorating Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin

Fuat Sezgin was born 24.10.1924 in Bitlis (Turkey). Between 1943 and 1951 he studied at the University of Istanbul by the famous Orientalist Hellmut Ritter (1892-1971) Islamic and Arabic Studies. After the military coup in 1960 he was forced to leave Turkey and traveled to Germany, where he researched and taught at the University of Frankfurt.

Professor Sezgin is the author and publisher of numerous scientific standard works. His works include volumes on the history of the following disciplines: medicine, chemistry and alchemy, mathematics, astronomy and astrology, as well as poetry, grammar, lexicography, geography and cartography. He founded the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Sciences in Frankfurt / Main and is still regarded as a pioneer in the study of the Islamic scientific culture. The husband and father Fuat Sezgin is considered the rediscoverer of lost Islamic historical science and because of his exceptional endurance and thoroughness he is a legend researcher of our time.

He is the recipient of several international awards for his extraordinary and above-average achievements. On June 30, 2018, Sezgin died at the age of 94 in his beloved Istanbul.

Because of his scientific, but also social responsibility and the inheritance he has given us, we would like to commemorate him in his honor on UNIDAY 2018 and posthumously award him for his lifetime achievement.

Commemorating Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin

Fuat Sezgin was born 24.10.1924 in Bitlis (Turkey). Between 1943 and 1951 he studied at the University of Istanbul by the famous Orientalist Hellmut Ritter (1892-1971) Islamic and Arabic Studies. After the military coup in 1960 he was forced to leave Turkey and traveled to Germany, where he researched and taught at the University of Frankfurt.

Professor Sezgin is the author and publisher of numerous scientific standard works. His works include volumes on the history of the following disciplines: medicine, chemistry and alchemy, mathematics, astronomy and astrology, as well as poetry, grammar, lexicography, geography and cartography. He founded the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Sciences in Frankfurt / Main and is still regarded as a pioneer in the study of the Islamic scientific culture. The husband and father Fuat Sezgin is considered the rediscoverer of lost Islamic historical science and because of his exceptional endurance and thoroughness he is a legend researcher of our time.

He is the recipient of several international awards for his extraordinary and above-average achievements. On June 30, 2018, Sezgin died at the age of 94 in his beloved Istanbul.

Because of his scientific, but also social responsibility and the inheritance he has given us, we would like to commemorate him in his honor on UNIDAY 2018 and posthumously award him for his lifetime achievement.

UNIDAY Anchor: Cem Öğretir

Cem Öğretir was born in 1973 in Norwich, England. He finished his elementary and secondary education in Eskişehir. In 1995, he graduated from Anadolu University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Cinema and Television. During his studies, he worked as a reporter, editor and announcer. After graduating in 1995, he began working as a correspondent on a news program in Istanbul. In 1996, he worked at the Show TV News Center, Star TV in 1997, CnnTurk in 2000, Haberturk as Editor, Announcer and Reporter in 2008. Since 2010 he works as a moderator in the Atv news center.

UNIDAY Anchor: Cem Öğretir

Cem Öğretir was born in 1973 in Norwich, England. He finished his elementary and secondary education in Eskişehir. In 1995, he graduated from Anadolu University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Cinema and Television. During his studies, he worked as a reporter, editor and announcer. After graduating in 1995, he began working as a correspondent on a news program in Istanbul. In 1996, he worked at the Show TV News Center, Star TV in 1997, CnnTurk in 2000, Haberturk as Editor, Announcer and Reporter in 2008. Since 2010 he works as a moderator in the Atv news center.

Social Project Proposal Competition

In the 21st century, humanity is facing serious crises. In the pas few years, the developments in the Middle East led to a refugee crisis that is significantly challenging Europe. Parallel to this, the rise of the far right and the increase of racist speech on a global level is affecting political discourse and is taking a more centralised place in social life. In addition to this all, the capitalist mode of living is seriously damaging our environment and leading to dangerous results such as air pollution, water pollution and loss of biodiversity. The refugee crisis, Anti-Racism and Environmental Protection are the main concerns we need to focus on currently.

Working with the aim to solve global challenges with global solutions, the Chairmanship of IGMG Students is organising a social project grant competition to deal with the projects of the refugee crisis, anti-racism and environmental protection. Those who wish to apply for the grant and take part in the competition, need to focus on one of these three issues and need to develop either a local or a global solution to the problem, which can in turn be presented generally. The selected projects shall be presented on UNIDAY on the 13th of October in Essen, Germay.

Module: Refugee Crisis

What type of project relating to the refugee crisis can be run on a local or global level?

Module: Anti-Racism

What type of project relating to combatting anti-racism, a phenomenon which is rising globally and taking centralised places in our social lives, can be run on a local or global level?

Module: Environmental Protection

What type of project leading to creating efficient and sustainable awareness of environmental protection on a local or global level?

Requirements

The applicant must be a university or high school student

The project must be typed or written on an A4 page consisting of minimum 600 words

The main language of the project must be Turkish, German or English

The project must be explained in a PowerPoint presentation which will be sent together with the written application

The project can be organised as an individual, but it must be run together with a recognised and official organisation/school/university or another institution.

Elements that must be included in the application

Name of the project

Name(s) of the project leader(s)

Timeline of the project

Location of the project

Needed logistics of the project

Financial plan of the project

Prizes

A trip to an African country, to Bosnia or to Jerusalem.

In order to apply for the social grant competition, you must send us your Name, Birth Date, Address, e-mail address and phone number to info@uniday.org by 6 October 2018.

Social Project Proposal Competition​

In the 21st century, humanity is facing serious crises. In the pas few years, the developments in the Middle East led to a refugee crisis that is significantly challenging Europe. Parallel to this, the rise of the far right and the increase of racist speech on a global level is affecting political discourse and is taking a more centralised place in social life. In addition to this all, the capitalist mode of living is seriously damaging our environment and leading to dangerous results such as air pollution, water pollution and loss of biodiversity. The refugee crisis, Anti-Racism and Environmental Protection are the main concerns we need to focus on currently.

Working with the aim to solve global challenges with global solutions, the Chairmanship of IGMG Students is organising a social project grant competition to deal with the projects of the refugee crisis, anti-racism and environmental protection. Those who wish to apply for the grant and take part in the competition, need to focus on one of these three issues and need to develop either a local or a global solution to the problem, which can in turn be presented generally. The selected projects shall be presented on UNIDAY on the 13th of October in Essen, Germay.

Module: Refugee Crisis

What type of project relating to the refugee crisis can be run on a local or global level?

Module: Anti-Racism

What type of project relating to combatting anti-racism, a phenomenon which is rising globally and taking centralised places in our social lives, can be run on a local or global level?

Module: Environmental Protection

What type of project leading to creating efficient and sustainable awareness of environmental protection on a local or global level?

Requirements

The applicant must be a university or high school student

The project must be typed or written on an A4 page consisting of minimum 600 words

The main language of the project must be Turkish, German or English

The project must be explained in a PowerPoint presentation which will be sent together with the written application

The project can be organised as an individual, but it must be run together with a recognised and official organisation/school/university or another institution.

Elements that must be included in the application

Name of the project

Name(s) of the project leader(s)

Timeline of the project

Location of the project

Needed logistics of the project

Financial plan of the project

Prizes

A trip to an African country, to Bosnia or to Jerusalem.

In order to apply for the social grant competition, you must send us your Name, Birth Date, Address, e-mail address and phone number to info@uniday.org by 6 October 2018.

PLURAL Publications Bookstand

The PLURAL publisher is a young publishing house, which is working on developing of the rich Islamic literature. He intends to convey this diversity to Muslim and interested non-Muslim readers.

About us

Islamic Community Millî Görüş Students Department

IGMG Students’ Department offer various services for prospective Muslim students and graduates in order to help them to shape their lives in accordance with the requirements of their religious, historical and cultural identity; to raise them as self-confident young individuals, who can assume responsibility in the society. While doing this, it aims at that personalities who deal with scholarship identify their own positions with respect to facts of time and place.

The Students’ Department acts with the conviction that young Muslims should be in the position of producing new ideas and offering alternatives by understanding the present era and state of affairs in the light of Islamic values. In this respect, the department conducts various activities to bring knowledge seekers’ attention to knowledge and wisdom and concerns itself responsible for guiding those who seek for wisdom. By broadening students’ perspectives beyond their specific disciplines through opening up new horizons before them, the Students’ Department intends mainly to raise a new generation of Muslims with a vision for the future and something to say to the world.

The Students’ Department conducts its services with a committee and is active together with Community Development, Education, Public Relations and Student Residence and Bursary Units in 36 regions with its 350 administrators. Together with about 5500 members, the Students’ Department reaches 11000 students with its services.

WORKSHOPS

There are three different workshop categories consisting of “Theology”, “Ideas” and “Sentiments”. According to their study programmes, university students are grouped under these three categories and, in addition to their academic studies, they are given an alternative education and training which will open up the doors of knowledge and wisdom before them to enable them to construct a brilliant future. One of the major goals of workshops is to reach a universal perspective, to think about future with the tradition of wisdom. Readings include sources of both the East and the West. Workshops are enriched with discussion of different subjects by scholars participating from different corners of the world and presentations and researches of participants. Workshops are consolidated with intense educational programs in the forms of summer and winter schools, and afterwards by congregating of three groups every month.

HOUSES OF WISDOM

In many ancient traditions as in Islam, souls and hearts connected with reason are taken into consideration in education human being besides mere loading of information to the minds. This understanding lost its currency and education and upbringing became a uni-dimensional process that appeals only to reason. Time in which we live and common educational institutions of it either totally ignored spiritual and mental dimension of human being or gave priority to reason.

Through the Houses of Wisdom project students who study away from home are not only offered accommodation opportunities, but also an atmosphere which enables them to improve and protect their religious and cultural awareness and thus enjoy also a spiritually productive time during their studies. While conversations of wisdom and religious services collectively performed enable to purify hearts, their world of thought is appealed with reading activities carried in different fields with them.

GHAZZALI SCHOLARSHIPS

Imam Ghazzali is a personality who did not come under the influence of the era through which he lived, but shaped his era with his own belief and thoughts. He is a truth seeker who went beyond his time, not being confined with his era, and is a man of thought who made the best of the knowledge that he acquired. Insight is not without knowledge and wisdom is not without insight. Throughout his life Imam Ghazzali was in a search for from knowledge to insight and from insight to truth. He is such an exceptional personality who had knowledge, insight and wisdom together. Imam Ghazzali scholarship is a work that has been developed in order to support knowledge-seekers who will steep themselves in knowledge, gird themselves with insight and be in demand of wisdom. Furthermore, with scientific research scholarships, students who intend to pursue an academic career are provided financial assistance in order to raise highly qualified academics and individuals who will contribute to the society they live in and provide support to future generations in their education and academic studies.

READING CIRCLES

High school and university students from regions and branches are supported through a continuous process of reading and thinking with a repertory of books, which urges to contemplate on the source of truth. Thus, evaluations are made by discussing subjects after reading the works of authors, scholars and poets, through which they keep open the ways to reason and awareness. Thanks to these activities, it is aimed at the youth’s having an idea against transforming and vaporizing power of media. We hope that a collective spirit of invocation and contemplation will revive as a consequence of efforts by knowledge-seekers in reading circles.

EVLİYA ÇELEBİLANGUAGE COURSES

Initiated in Cairo, London, Brighton and Strasbourg, Evliya Celebi Language Courses offer the opportunity of learning foreign languages in the countries where they are spoken. Language courses will be expanded covering South Africa, Iran, Jordan and Spain as well in future years. With the intention of expanding the selection of languages available in the coming years, Evliya Celebi Language Courses not only teach a language, but also provide the participants with a historical, political and cultural introduction to the places where the language is learned.

LESERUNDEN

Organized in different parts of Europe, UNIYES (Boarding Education Seminars) enables students gather and get to know of each other, and also provides possibility for them to discuss many issues deeply. Furthermore, students discuss legal, social and political events and problems developing in different parts of the world, following presentations of educators invited. Through this program students are ensured to have the chance to present their own experiences and evaluate ideas presented methodologically in a convenient atmosphere.

SYPMOSIUMS ANDPANEL DISCUSSIONS

Various symposiums and panel discussions are organized with the purpose of contributing to the intellectual development of students. Carefully selected academics, who are experts in their field, are also invited to the programmes for more diverse and fruitful discussions. In discussions it is aimed at presenting a subject with different perspectives and making contribution in solving matters rather than merely discussing subjects by academics invited. In addition, students are provided the chance to pose questions to experts and have exchange of ideas with them in these discussions of which subject matters are on current affairs.

CONSULTANCY SERVICE

The Consultancy Service came into being with the intention of helping prospective students by listening to their concerns and assisting them in their first steps at university. In this way, students equip prospective students with useful information and offer them genuine guidance and help them to discover their abilities and areas of interest. They also help university students regarding problems about their education or their department.

STUDYDAY

STUDYDAY is a consultancy fair for high-school graduates who intend to study at university. University students or graduates provide prospective students with some useful information, such as which university offers the best education in their desired study programmes and thus guide them in their decision making process.

ADABI

High school graduation ceremony called ADABI is designed to reward young high-school graduates. This organisation also serves to encourage young people to study at university and to inform them about university education.

CULTURAL TRIPS

The organisation of excursions to different cities and areas serves to bring the university students closer to the places and facts, which are crucial for their individual development and leads them to reflect upon what they experience. Cities are discovered from perspectives of history, literature, architecture and geography, and their fabric is examined in order to understand these places closely and make comments on them.

Islamic Community Millî Görüş Students Department

IGMG Students’ Department offer various services for prospective Muslim students and graduates in order to help them to shape their lives in accordance with the requirements of their religious, historical and cultural identity; to raise them as self-confident young individuals, who can assume responsibility in the society. While doing this, it aims at that personalities who deal with scholarship identify their own positions with respect to facts of time and place.

The Students’ Department acts with the conviction that young Muslims should be in the position of producing new ideas and offering alternatives by understanding the present era and state of affairs in the light of Islamic values. In this respect, the department conducts various activities to bring knowledge seekers’ attention to knowledge and wisdom and concerns itself responsible for guiding those who seek for wisdom. By broadening students’ perspectives beyond their specific disciplines through opening up new horizons before them, the Students’ Department intends mainly to raise a new generation of Muslims with a vision for the future and something to say to the world.

The Students’ Department conducts its services with a committee and is active together with Community Development, Education, Public Relations and Student Residence and Bursary Units in 36 regions with its 350 administrators. Together with about 5500 members, the Students’ Department reaches 11000 students with its services.

WORKSHOPS

There are three different workshop categories consisting of “Theology”, “Ideas” and “Sentiments”. According to their study programmes, university students are grouped under these three categories and, in addition to their academic studies, they are given an alternative education and training which will open up the doors of knowledge and wisdom before them to enable them to construct a brilliant future. One of the major goals of workshops is to reach a universal perspective, to think about future with the tradition of wisdom. Readings include sources of both the East and the West. Workshops are enriched with discussion of different subjects by scholars participating from different corners of the world and presentations and researches of participants. Workshops are consolidated with intense educational programs in the forms of summer and winter schools, and afterwards by congregating of three groups every month.

HOUSES OF WISDOM

In many ancient traditions as in Islam, souls and hearts connected with reason are taken into consideration in education human being besides mere loading of information to the minds. This understanding lost its currency and education and upbringing became a uni-dimensional process that appeals only to reason. Time in which we live and common educational institutions of it either totally ignored spiritual and mental dimension of human being or gave priority to reason.

Through the Houses of Wisdom project students who study away from home are not only offered accommodation opportunities, but also an atmosphere which enables them to improve and protect their religious and cultural awareness and thus enjoy also a spiritually productive time during their studies. While conversations of wisdom and religious services collectively performed enable to purify hearts, their world of thought is appealed with reading activities carried in different fields with them.

GHAZZALI SCHOLARSHIPS

Imam Ghazzali is a personality who did not come under the influence of the era through which he lived, but shaped his era with his own belief and thoughts. He is a truth seeker who went beyond his time, not being confined with his era, and is a man of thought who made the best of the knowledge that he acquired. Insight is not without knowledge and wisdom is not without insight. Throughout his life Imam Ghazzali was in a search for from knowledge to insight and from insight to truth. He is such an exceptional personality who had knowledge, insight and wisdom together. Imam Ghazzali scholarship is a work that has been developed in order to support knowledge-seekers who will steep themselves in knowledge, gird themselves with insight and be in demand of wisdom. Furthermore, with scientific research scholarships, students who intend to pursue an academic career are provided financial assistance in order to raise highly qualified academics and individuals who will contribute to the society they live in and provide support to future generations in their education and academic studies.

READING CIRCLES

High school and university students from regions and branches are supported through a continuous process of reading and thinking with a repertory of books, which urges to contemplate on the source of truth. Thus, evaluations are made by discussing subjects after reading the works of authors, scholars and poets, through which they keep open the ways to reason and awareness. Thanks to these activities, it is aimed at the youth’s having an idea against transforming and vaporizing power of media. We hope that a collective spirit of invocation and contemplation will revive as a consequence of efforts by knowledge-seekers in reading circles.

EVLİYA ÇELEBİLANGUAGE COURSES

Initiated in Cairo, London, Brighton and Strasbourg, Evliya Celebi Language Courses offer the opportunity of learning foreign languages in the countries where they are spoken. Language courses will be expanded covering South Africa, Iran, Jordan and Spain as well in future years. With the intention of expanding the selection of languages available in the coming years, Evliya Celebi Language Courses not only teach a language, but also provide the participants with a historical, political and cultural introduction to the places where the language is learned.

LESERUNDEN

Organized in different parts of Europe, UNIYES (Boarding Education Seminars) enables students gather and get to know of each other, and also provides possibility for them to discuss many issues deeply. Furthermore, students discuss legal, social and political events and problems developing in different parts of the world, following presentations of educators invited. Through this program students are ensured to have the chance to present their own experiences and evaluate ideas presented methodologically in a convenient atmosphere.

SYPMOSIUMS ANDPANEL DISCUSSIONS

Various symposiums and panel discussions are organized with the purpose of contributing to the intellectual development of students. Carefully selected academics, who are experts in their field, are also invited to the programmes for more diverse and fruitful discussions. In discussions it is aimed at presenting a subject with different perspectives and making contribution in solving matters rather than merely discussing subjects by academics invited. In addition, students are provided the chance to pose questions to experts and have exchange of ideas with them in these discussions of which subject matters are on current affairs.

CONSULTANCY SERVICE

The Consultancy Service came into being with the intention of helping prospective students by listening to their concerns and assisting them in their first steps at university. In this way, students equip prospective students with useful information and offer them genuine guidance and help them to discover their abilities and areas of interest. They also help university students regarding problems about their education or their department.

STUDYDAY

STUDYDAY is a consultancy fair for high-school graduates who intend to study at university. University students or graduates provide prospective students with some useful information, such as which university offers the best education in their desired study programmes and thus guide them in their decision making process.

ADABI

High school graduation ceremony called ADABI is designed to reward young high-school graduates. This organisation also serves to encourage young people to study at university and to inform them about university education.

CULTURAL TRIPS

The organisation of excursions to different cities and areas serves to bring the university students closer to the places and facts, which are crucial for their individual development and leads them to reflect upon what they experience. Cities are discovered from perspectives of history, literature, architecture and geography, and their fabric is examined in order to understand these places closely and make comments on them.